Joel Frederiksen

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Joel Frederiksen

Joel Frederiksen (* 1959 ) is an American bassist and lutenist and director of the Ensemble Phoenix Munich .

biography

Frederiksen studied singing and lute in New York and Michigan (Oakland University), where he obtained his master's degree. Since then he has worked with American early music ensembles such as the Boston Camerata and the Waverly Consort.

After his 1998 Salzburg Festival debut in Kurt Weill's “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” under Dennis Russel-Davies , Joel Frederiksen settled in Europe. From Munich he travels in Germany and abroad (collaboration with Paul O'Dette, Stephen Stubbs , Jordi Savall , Hille Perl , Diabolus in musica, Huelgas Ensemble, Ensemble Gilles Binchois , Freiburg Baroque Orchestra ). In addition, Joel Frederiksen devotes himself to his specialty with his own program concepts: the lute song of the Renaissance and early Baroque.

In 2003, Joel Frederiksen founded the Ensemble Phoenix Munich , which has been touring worldwide since 2007 and has presented the concert series “Between Mars and Venus” in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.

He lives in Munich.

Prizes and awards

  • 1990 Distinguished Musicianship Award (Oakland University, Michigan)
  • 2003 Alumni Arts Achievement Award in Music (Oakland University, Michigan)
  • 2007 Star of the Year "Classical Musician of the Year" ( Münchner Abendzeitung )
  • 2008 Prize of the German Record Critics - Best List (O felice the CD)
  • 2011 Orphée d'Or from the Academie du Disque Lyrique (Mikołaj Toreński CD)
  • 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award (Oakland University, Michigan)
  • 2013 ECHO Klassik Prize (Requiem for a Pink Moon CD)

Discography

  • The Elfin Knight - Ballads and Dances, Ensemble Phoenix Munich , harmonia mundi France 2007
  • O felice morire - Florence 1600, Ensemble Phoenix Munich , harmonia mundi 2008 - German Record Critics' Prize
  • Mikolaj Zielenski: Opera Omnia, Vol. 4 - Communiones totius anni 1611 Duets with Emma Kirkby - Orphée d'Or 2011
  • Rose of Sharon 100 - Years of American Music (1770–1870) 2011 - Top 10 Billboard Charts
  • Requiem for a Pink Moon - An Elizabethan Tribute to Nick Drake, 2012 - Echo Klassik Preis
  • Reflections - Oswald von Wolkenstein. With Bernd-Oliver Fröhlich (saxophone) and Sabine Lutzenberger (soprano) 2013
  • Tell Me True Love - John Dowland Ensemble Phoenix Munich , Joel Frederiksen 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joel Frederiksen: Biography. (No longer available online.) In: Website Joel Frederiksen. Joel Frederiksen, archived from the original on April 9, 2017 ; accessed on April 3, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.joelfrederiksen.com
personal data
SURNAME Frederiksen, Joel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American bassist and lutenist as well as director of the Ensemble Phoenix Munich
DATE OF BIRTH 1959